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The resort also offers cooking and mixology classes, bird-watching and night frog walks, coffee and wine tastings, tree planting, and traditional oxcart painting classes.
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Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 26 Aug. 2025
Luckily for the pair, a man in an oxcart soon passed.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
Peer into the daily lives of early German Texans
The days of freighters and oxcarts making their arduous way across Texas and Mexico from Indianola ended in 1860 when the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad and the Indianola Railroad joined up in Victoria.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024
Its founder, Henderson Lewelling, brought his fruit trees and his family overland by oxcart from Iowa.
—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
The looters stole a third object from the same site — a Skanda figure sitting on a peacock — transported it by oxcart to the border with Thailand and sold it for about $600.
—Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
The geophysicists who’d loaned us the instrument were begging us to bring them back an oxcart and a pair of oxen, says Sheets.
—Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 26 Aug. 2025
Luckily for the pair, a man in an oxcart soon passed.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
Peer into the daily lives of early German Texans
The days of freighters and oxcarts making their arduous way across Texas and Mexico from Indianola ended in 1860 when the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad and the Indianola Railroad joined up in Victoria.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024
Its founder, Henderson Lewelling, brought his fruit trees and his family overland by oxcart from Iowa.
—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
The looters stole a third object from the same site — a Skanda figure sitting on a peacock — transported it by oxcart to the border with Thailand and sold it for about $600.
—Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
The geophysicists who’d loaned us the instrument were begging us to bring them back an oxcart and a pair of oxen, says Sheets.
—Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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“Oxcart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oxcart. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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oxcart
noun
ox·cart
-ˌkärt 
: a cart drawn by oxen
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